Cave Optical Company of Long Beach, California produced thousands of high quality telescopes for advanced amateurs and universities during the 1950s through the 1970's.

The telescopes have high quality optics and massive mounts and are rapidly becoming collectors items.

Following are scanned images of the pages of the 28-page Cave Optical Company catalog for 1975 along with the separate two price sheets. The thumbnail photos are in order -- left to right for the front cover and pages 1, 2, 3,... ,26, and the back cover -- Click on an image to see the full size page.

Thomas Cave was the founder and operator of Cave Optical until it shut down in 1980. The link is to an excellent writeup by Masatsugu Minami, Director of the OAA Mars Section, on Mr. Cave. Thomas Cave died on June 4, 2003.

...and last but certainly not least, is Roland Chavez's absolutely gorgeous restored 12.5-inch Cave mounted on a Parks Optical equatorial mount. This is one of the most beautiful surviving Astrola 'scopes left on this planet.